How To Use Math To Crush Your Friends At Monopoly Like You've Never Done Beforehttp://www.businessinsider.com/math-monopoly-statistics-2013-6/comments
en-usWed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 -0500Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:35:57 -0500Walter Hickeyhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51e455426bb3f7b77c00000djohn.gruskaMon, 15 Jul 2013 16:02:10 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51e455426bb3f7b77c00000d
As a side note, your slideshow fails to discuss the most interesting and dynamic aspect of Monopoly: trading! Just as the basic probabilities and rankings of hands are a critical base to poker strategy, the numbers and strategies you've mentioned here are to be uses as a basis for making complex and effective trades when the time comes. Also, as my blog (MonopolyNerd) shows, things get much more interesting when looked at the angle of starting with limited resources ($1500 cash).http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51e453146bb3f7877c000009john.gruskaMon, 15 Jul 2013 15:52:52 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51e453146bb3f7877c000009
As a scholar of the game, I've written a fully-functional online simulator of Monopoly that I wrote a while back. It really helps to get the bottom of any given situation in Monopoly. Let me know what you think! Do a search for "monopoly simulator", and you'll find my blog and simulator.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c71d8769bedd2828000011Monopoly MasterSun, 23 Jun 2013 12:08:39 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c71d8769bedd2828000011
Many people here do not realize the power of "not buying" a piece of property in Monopoly. This article did not go even further in depth concerning available cash flow versus property costs and returns. You or your competitors can potentially go broke after two trips around the board. Finding yourself unable to afford luxuries like buying Boardwalk (now Times Square for $4mil) with just a few bucks, you can turn down the purchase. This sends it to auction (according to the rules) where you have a chance of scoring a great property for less than the asking price, OR (and my personal favorite) use the auction to drive the price for this highly coveted "game changer" into the absurd (I've pushed people to $8mil before on first go-round) and quickly bankrupt your opponents. It is the perfect tool to use against greedy buyers. THEN, once they are good and going broke, simply refuse purchase of any other properties you come across and scoop them up from under your broke competitors for pennies on the dollar!
I once kept a virtual Monopoly game going for two months just to see if I could break the $1billion mark in revenue. Yeah. None of my friends like playing Monopoly with me anymore.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c5f9a4eab8ea2462000011Walter HickeySat, 22 Jun 2013 15:23:16 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c5f9a4eab8ea2462000011
Precisely. You get to Short Line by rolling 12, 12, 11.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c5cd3d6bb3f7b925000013FBSat, 22 Jun 2013 12:13:49 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c5cd3d6bb3f7b925000013
You can't get to Short Line on your first set of rolls because if you roll doubles 3 times, you go to jail.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c569b36bb3f7e956000036AyreGuitarSat, 22 Jun 2013 05:09:07 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c569b36bb3f7e956000036
Interesting article, but NOT ALL the randomness is derived from dice rolls, there's also the Community Chest and Chance cards which are shuffled.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c4626ceab8eac927000010FIx your graphsFri, 21 Jun 2013 10:25:48 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c4626ceab8eac927000010
Your graphs aren't lined up making most of the slides pretty useless. Other than that, pretty solid presentation...but yeah get an intern or something to fix that junk, it's really bad.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c3bbeaeab8eac95c000003Joe WalkerThu, 20 Jun 2013 22:35:22 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c3bbeaeab8eac95c000003
Speaking of math, how many people watched Obama's speech in Berlin?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA Keep it coming liberalshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c36abaecad04641f00001cjohnalsmithThu, 20 Jun 2013 16:48:58 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c36abaecad04641f00001c
Who even plays that game.
When do you EVER not buy?
Monopoly is a broken game.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c369f269bedd7a6600003cNiceThu, 20 Jun 2013 16:45:38 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c369f269bedd7a6600003c
Nice, you guys fixed the slideshow links disappearing in some browsers.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c3691c6bb3f72f28000010just.a.guyThu, 20 Jun 2013 16:42:04 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c3691c6bb3f72f28000010
This also reminds me.. my parents put this book in my stocking back in 1983 or so because we liked to play monopoly as a family : <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Monopoly-Book-Strategy-Tactics/dp/0679202927" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" >http://www.amazon.com/The-Monopoly-Book-Strategy-Tactics/dp/0679202927</a>
Oops! They increased my winning percentage from 60% or so to 80%+ :Dhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c368a3eab8ea2435000011just.a.guyThu, 20 Jun 2013 16:40:03 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c368a3eab8ea2435000011
Most of the facts and statistics here are not informative on what to buy.
Because the right answer for what to buy early in the game is WHATEVER YOU CAN BUY.
That which is not optimal is trade bait for later.
The only real advice that would change how you play here:
1) angle for building houses (3 if possible) when people are most likely to land on them the following turn (the 5,6,7,8 spaces thing).
2) angle your trades for a railroad monopoly, an orange monopoly, etc. in order
but all the other stuff is just interesting stats where the reality is what you want to do early in the game is "roll lots of doubles and buy everything you can"http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c361f969bedd2057000010mpThu, 20 Jun 2013 16:11:37 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c361f969bedd2057000010
Some of this is helpful, but usually the biggest advantage is to simply roll first. The railroads are a major advantage when nobody holds a monopoly. If you have all 4 you can wipe out all earnings from someone passing Go.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c36081ecad046f0b00000bNew American DreamThu, 20 Jun 2013 16:05:21 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c36081ecad046f0b00000b
Thank you. It was a good read.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c351a169bedd4635000005Spermcell003276663492Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:01:53 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c351a169bedd4635000005
I swear, I will never play this game againhttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c34c4f69beddfd2500001bWalter HickeyThu, 20 Jun 2013 14:39:11 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c34c4f69beddfd2500001b
Fixed! thankshttp://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c34bfeecad047e6200000eAnd Short of ItThu, 20 Jun 2013 14:37:50 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c34bfeecad047e6200000e
Tanks for the mammaries.http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c3498f6bb3f7fc6c000008New American DreamThu, 20 Jun 2013 14:27:27 -0400http://www.businessinsider.com/c/51c3498f6bb3f7fc6c000008
Numbering of chart on slide 5 is off. It has 3 as both Baltic and Tax.